Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-12-01
NEW YORK STREET SCENES
CHILDREN AMUSING THEMSELVES
AND OTHERS ON SUNDAY.

Juvenile Fun on the Upper End of Man
haitian Island-A Novel Entertainment.
The Fire Engine-Pony and Dog Cart.
The Goat.
Sunday is great day foa the children Of
New York who are not given to its close OBJ
servance as a time of rest. Paradise park
and the streets of the more thickly populated
parts of the city are alive with them, but if
you want to see children having fun in the
widest sense you must go to the upper end OF
Manhattan Island, where they have more
room to disport themselves. The small boys
in the neighborhood of One Hundred and
Twenty-seventh street and Eighth avenue
have q spirited sparring club. Two of them
were matched to fight to finish last Sunday,
and crowd was on hand to see the sights
Il was q gamy encounter. As the fight pro-
gressed friend of one of the combatants
said:
Hold on; dat amt 'cordin' to de Queens
berry rules!'
The referee declared that it was, the COM
plainant called him liar, and the referee
proceeded to lick him. The combatants then
turned their attention from their own fight
to help along the skirmish between the referee
and his enemy. 4 general riot and several
bloody noses was the result, and 4 man had
to come in and quell the disturbance.
4 block north of the scene of this diversion
well dressed boys were playing marbles, which
game is just now regaining its former popu-
Iarity with the boys of the metropolis. Some
girls who had been contemptuously debarred
from the game went aside and consoled them
selves by playing jackstoneS This game, too,
ended in a war. One girl had on n new hood
Another, who still wore her summer hat,
criticised the hood in an uncomplimentary
manner, whereupon the owner of the hood
said:
Il know what ails you. Your ma haint
got money enough to buy you hood, so
therem
The majority of the players took sides with
the wearer of the summer hat, and the purse
proud poSsessor of the hood was boycotted
and went home in tears.
NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT.
Probably the most exciting and novel en-
tertainment was that in which some boys
were participating near the corner of One
Hundred and Twenty sixth street and St
Nicholas avenue, where high mass Of rocks
is being blasted A big derrick, worked by
hand, stands alongside the rock. The boys
number took his scat on it, and then they
hauled him high in air and swung the der
rick around rapidly. 1t was, so great fun
that each boy clamored for his turn to ride
on the derrick, and begged to be allowed to
remain up in the air for longer period, but
his comrades dropped him to the ground
very suddenly, and there was no appeal from
their action.
A vacant lot nearly opposite the derrick
contains shanty, goat shed, and usually q
demure goat. Some young lids use the lot
every Sunday as a football ground. They
were kicking the ball about with great glee
when the goat came out of the shed and Mrs.
Doolan, its owner came to the door of her
shanty. The goat gazed with disapproval on
the bounding ball, then leveled its horns and
went out to meet it. The encounter was not
conducive to the goats peace of mind, and it
esSayed another attack. The boys by COM
mon consent made the goat the goal of the
game and pelted it with the big ball until it
was knocked over on its side, and Mrs. Doc
Ian rushed among them to rescue it and bare
ly escaped being hit herself. =
At one point near the end of old Broadway,
where the houses are poor and the people
likewise, some lads were playing horse. They
rigged up an old soap box on wheels into
something like a fire engine. A boy at dis
tant point pounded on tin pan as mimic
alarm of fire, and the portable soap box
drawn by fleet footed boys quickly responded
One Of the horses lost his shoe and a young
ster, whose father is blacksmith; took him
aside, took his foot between his legs, after the
manner Of smith shoeing horse, and ham,
mered the shoe back into place. 80 -;
PONY AND DOG CART.
While the soap box brigade were waiting
at the roadside, a dandyish little boy from one
of the mansions on the boulevard came along
driving pretty black pony hitched to a dog
cart. Instantly the poor boys, whpse soap
box looked more mean than ever beside the
handsome dog cart, greeted the dryer with
such: "Where'd yo git dc meat wagonn
"Oh, take de plug pony away The boy
quickly turned his steed about and drove
away to escape the criticisms of the fire
brigade He found, however, that he had
jumped out of the frying pan into!the fire.
He turned down on the broad boulevard near
One Hundred and Thirty-ffth street, and ran
into a crowd of boys who were playing
hockey, which some have called pedestrian
polo. They fairly filed up the street and
were knocking the ball hither and yon with
great energy. In one of its flights it hit the
pony, which reared, turned sharply about,
and nearly threw the lad from his seat. He
tried to drive in an opposite direction, only
to encounter another of the gangs of hockey
players that virtually take possession Of the
boulevard on Sunday, and he was compelled
tn take cross street and roundabout way
home.
Just before you reach Manhattan street on
the boulevard you pass some old shanties
There is at least one goat to each shanty.
Two boys crept into the shanty village and
lassoed a goat of the color of dirty door
mat. They led it away despite its protest,
rigged up bride, put an improvised bit in
its mouth, and whipped it into a canter.
They drove it up and down the: street, and
then in a moment of unwisdom born of too
much fun they galloped it near its residence.
They were driving it to beat all previous
records when there was a yell from among
the humble huts, and a very large and mus
cular woman dashed among the drivers and
retainers of the goat and scattered blows on
their heads as she yelled: ).
tAh, ha, ye young spalpeenst Olive caught
ye now. Now oi know why me goat keeps
so poor all the while. Ye've been driven him
to death yidout me knowledge. Take that,
and that, ye young deyils!" :
The race was declared of, and the eD
hausted goat was taken home.-New York
Cor. Savannah News
A Story from Roscoe. Conklinx.
Roscoe Conkling sat in theatre the other
evening. A hand was laid on his shoulder
from behind. It belonged to certain highly